Posted on 06/11/2020 8:25:56 AM PDT by bitt
Modern racial justice movements like Black Lives Matter are embracing the historically false assumption that socialism is anti-racist.
Speaking to the Los Angeles Times last August, the co-founder of Black Lives Matter, Patrisse Cullors, stated that BLM would not sit at the table with President Trump because he “is literally the epitome of evil, all the evils of this country—be it racism, capitalism, sexism, homophobia”.
Trump’s views and actions aside, calling capitalism evil and conflating it with racism is noteworthy. The same goes for the increasing tendency among racial justice advocates to embrace the left-wing economic agenda.
So much so that Ryan Cooper, a columnist for The Week, wrote a column titled, "Is Black Lives Matter turning socialist?" As Cooper approvingly noted, BLM has adopted a “hugely aggressive—and firmly leftist—economic program”.
On the other side of the Atlantic, Natalie Jeffers, who cofounded BLM in the United Kingdom, urged her followers to: “Fight racism with solidarity. Fight capitalism with socialism. We must organize—dedicate ourselves to revolutionary politic power.”
The Black Lives Matter Movement, a separate British organization, was founded by Gary McFarlane, a representative of the Socialist Workers Party, who writes for the Socialist Review and the Socialist Worker, and claims that “Capitalism is racist from the top to the bottom.” His cofounders, including Kate Hurford, Harold Wilson, and Naima Omar, have also written for those two publications.
There is, in other words, a growing assumption among racial justice advocates that more socialism would result in less racism and, even, that socialism is, in itself, anti-racist. There is, in fact, no such necessary connection between socialism and anti-racism, as a closer look at early socialist writings amply shows.
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Shhhh! Quiet. Let them pee on the electric fence for themselves.
For commies the ‘black community’ is a horse to ride to power...
BTTT
But they only claim to be anti-racist. They’re actually racist.
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